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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality plans to create a searchable database that would compile patient registries much like ClinicalTrials.gov, which tracks new treatments for research. The agency has opened a 60-day comment period for the proposed Registry of Patient Registries, which is meant to promote the exchange of data on quality, appropriateness and effectiveness of health services.

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Transfusing greater amounts of red blood cells during pediatric heart transplants was associated with more adverse outcomes, according to a study that controlled for other risk factors. Dr. Kimberly Howard-Quijano of the University of California at Los Angeles and her colleagues conducted a retrospective review of the cases of 94 children whose heart transplants took place at their center from 2004 to 2010. The abstract was presented at the Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease meeting in Orlando, Fla.

The FDA placed on import alert 14 additional Chinese companies that supplied a tainted drug ingredient linked to the 2008 heparin crisis, bringing the total to 22. There is no evidence the 14 companies are still shipping contaminated raw materials for heparin, the FDA said.

Cleveland Clinic Innovations will partner with the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System to help bring clinicians' ideas to market. The New York health system includes 15 hospitals and more than 200 other facilities, and it has founded or co-founded 11 companies through its Feinstein Institute. Potential areas for the new collaboration include therapies for sepsis and cancer, officials said.

Researchers at the Company for Vaccine and Biological Production No. 1 in Hanoi, Vietnam, said they have successfully tested an experimental bird flu vaccine that can protect against the H5N1 strain. Researchers were able to produce six series of the vaccine, called Fluvax. Trial participants showed good immunity response and experienced only minor side effects, researchers said.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality plans to create a searchable database that would compile patient registries much like ClinicalTrials.gov, which tracks new treatments for research. The agency has opened a 60-day comment period for the proposed Registry of Patient Registries, which is meant to promote the exchange of data on quality, appropriateness and effectiveness of health services.